Tag Archives: rebellion

Book Review: The Kill Code

Posted on April 15, 2020 by nathanalbright

The Kill Code, by Clive Fleury [Note:  This book was provided free of charge by TCK Publishing in exchange for an honest review.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.] In reading a book like this, it is important to … Continue reading →

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The War Of Heaven:  Satan In Revelation 12

Posted on November 26, 2019 by nathanalbright

Revelation 12 is one of the most interesting passages in the Bible, because it brings the reader to a subject that the Bible has been dealing with from the beginning, and that is the ultimately unsuccessful warfare of Satan against … Continue reading →

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Too Late To Apologize

Posted on July 18, 2019 by nathanalbright

During the summer of 2013, when I was staying for a period of some weeks at the home of close friends who I did not realize at the time were distant relatives, a young woman of the family kept on … Continue reading →

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αυτονομία

Posted on July 13, 2019 by nathanalbright

The subject of autonomy is one about which my feelings and opinions are characteristically ambivalent.  Much depends on what one means by autonomy.  I general, I support the right of smaller regions and peoples to be free from despotic and … Continue reading →

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Book Review: With Malice Toward Some

Posted on June 29, 2019 by nathanalbright

With Malice Toward Some:  Treason And Loyalty In The Civil War Era, by William A. Blair It is useful to remember what history looks like before it happens, so that we do not project our understanding of the past back … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Originals

Posted on June 26, 2019 by nathanalbright

Originals:  How Non-Conformists Move The World, by Adam Grant There is a moment in this book where my own opinion of the book and its author turned a bit sour.  A discussion of the training of political revolutionaries in Serbia … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Against Happiness

Posted on May 16, 2019 by nathanalbright

Against Happiness, by Eric G. Wilson I wanted to like this book more than I ended up liking it.  On the face of it, as a deeply melancholy person who has long struggled with chronic depression and related issues, and … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Vader’s Little Princess

Posted on April 28, 2019 by nathanalbright

Vader’s Little Princess, by Jeffrey Brown I have to admit that I found this particular book particularly winning in the way that it takes advantage of framing to view what most readers would think of as the heroic resistance by … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Primo Levi’s Resistance

Posted on January 21, 2019 by nathanalbright

Primo Levi’s Resistance:  Rebels And Collaborators In Occupied Italy, by Sergio Luzzatto It is striking, and something I did not know until reading this book, that the place of Primo Levi’s short and spectacularly unsuccessful career as a partisan against … Continue reading →

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Rebel Heart

Posted on September 22, 2017 by nathanalbright

I happen to be a fan of the Irish pop band The Corrs [1], and have been since my early teen years when the band debuted.  Each of their albums has usually included at least one instrumental song, and the … Continue reading →

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